Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of:
- Interventions and evaluations to improve the transition from children’s to adult services;
- Psychological aspect of care in oncology and palliative care nursing;
- Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Oncology;
- Educational interventions for teaching oncology and palliative care nursing.
Public outreach & key achievements
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2019: Secured Burdett Trust for Nursing small grant award
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2018: Successful team application for the Martha McMenamin Scholarship
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2017: Winner of the International Journal of Palliative Nursing 'Researcher of the Year' award.
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2016-2017: Awarded competitive national Florence Nightingale Foundation Travel Scholarship.
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2016-2017: Led in the organisation and delivery of an all-Ireland ‘Transition Workshop’ for service users and service providers in 2016.
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2016: Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland Nurse Researcher of the Year, runner up.
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2015: International collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto and
clinicians at the SickKids Children’s Hospital, Toronto on the transition from children’s to adult services.
Research students
| MSc Title | Is there a discordance between actual prognosis and prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer? |
| Name | Sara Mone |
| Year of Study | 2017-2018 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| MSc Title | To explore the perspective of patients with a diagnosis of serious and enduring mental illness in relation to their physical health |
| Name | Paula Maguire |
| Year of Study | Completed Masters in Nursing in 2015 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| MSc Title | Nurses responses to terminal restlessness in the last 48 hours of a palliative care patients life |
| Name | Ruth Neville |
| Year of Study | Completed Masters in Nursing in 2012 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |